Been meaning to ask this, someone else just brought up something. I'd like to make a mat, or perhaps a light, that looks like arc welding, or bright enough to look like it. I know turning ambience up to 100% will give you a glow, but I'm looking for more like an actinic, starlike 'where's my goggles' look to it, if you catch my drift. Being one of only 23 people in the entire world who doesn't have Photoshop, I wonder if it can be done in Bryce..(I tried turning up the light once to x00%, but it just washed out everything, maybe it has to do with ranging, or whatever)..any ideas?

Ranged lights ought to do it. This is a Volume visible light, the left image shows the default Linear Falloff and the right set to Range qith a value of 10. Since this is size dependent you'll need to fiddle with the light intensity and the range value for the scene it's used in. HTH; Dan

hmm..good idea..I'll try it.